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Research Degrees: Health and Wellbeing

Research Degrees: Health and Wellbeing

  • Dr Yetunde Dairo (physiotherapy, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, physical activity and intellectual disability, inclusion in physiotherapy education)
  • Dr Keiran Henderson (cardiovascular health, cancer screening, education and professional issues)
  • Dr Sharma Mallika (cognitive behavioural therapy, cultural adaptations in CBT, racial equity at the workplace as well as in the psychotherapeutic setting)
  • Dr Cynthia Srikesavan (physiotherapy)
  • Dr Ben Clayton (sport and gender, gender and pedagogy, disability sport, and the sports media, ‘stories of sport participation’, alternative, narrative forms of representing sports-related research)
  • Dr Fiona McCormack (sport volunteering; youth sport and physical activity)
  • Dr Mark Homer (applied exercise physiology, endurance sport, specialising in rowing and training distribution)
  • Nevin, JonPaul (optimisation of handcycling performance, tactical strength and conditioning and human performance optimisation in extremis contexts)
  • Dr Ravina Huh (dance, balance and motor control related research, as well as dance shoe, sportswear, taekwondo, gymnastics, rhythmical gymnastics, fitness programmes and fitness garment related research)
  • Dr Gulen Addis (nursing education, covering professional development and expertise, and nursing management)
  • Dr Marianthi Alexandropoulou (school nursing; community nursing; questionnaire development/reliability)
  • Dr Geoffrey Amoateng (mental health nursing; culture and beliefs in healing)
  • Dr Nandini Das (nursing)
  • Dr Iran Heuboeck (nursing)
  • Dr Sue Higham (Children, young people and families' experiences of illness and health care; Children's nursing practice;  Children and young people's well-being; Ethnography in health care research)
  • Dr Carlyle London (nurse education; community mental health nursing; recovery; and service users’ experience of mental health services)
  • Dr Paul Maloret (mental health nursing, autism spectrum, learning disabilities and mental health)
  • Dr Julia Williams (colo-rectal nursing, particularly patient experience; nursing education)
  • Dr Sena Agbo-Quaye (emotional expression and perception, decision making, sexual health, and existential and experiential areas of psychology)
  • Dr Anne Chappell (active ageing and resilience; social justice)
  • Dr Genevieve Cseh (psychology of creativity and the arts; flow; positive psychology)
  • Dr Barbara Kingsley (aspects of cognition on student experience; teaching and learning of Research Methods in HE)
  • Dr Sharma Mallika (cognitive behavioural therapy, cultural adaptations in CBT, racial equity at the workplace as well as in the psychotherapeutic setting)
  • Dr Ciaran O’Keefe (paranormal psychology; restorative justice; offender reform)
  • Dr Cheryl Pitt (family and child psychosocial wellbeing and health; adaptation to chronic illness in childhood;  lifespan and adult development; career development and lifelong learning)
  • Dr Ceri Sims (psychological development for children and adults, atypical developments, leadership, personality and coaching)
  • Dr Matthew Smith (positive psychology; restorative justice)
  • Dr Maria Ansbro (social work; assessment and management of risk; multi-agency child protection work; application of attachment theory)
  • Dr George Clerk (child labour and rights of the child in developing countries, violence against children, environmental justice, sustainable development)
  • Dr Desmond McDermott (social work, mental health practice, theory and research and shaping professional practice)

Current and recently completed research student projects

  • Title: The Impact of Customers’ Perceptions and Expectations of Internet Service Quality Delivery on the Growth of Internet Services in Federal Capital Territory Abuja, Nigeria
  • Supervisors: Dr Kevin Maher, Dr Ali Bakir
  • Title: Enhancing the well-being of young autistic people using positive psychology approaches.
  • Supervisors: Dr Matthew Smith, Dr Piers Worth, Professor Colin Martin
  • Title: Re-examining the out-of-body-experience as a transpersonal process: Seeking empirical evidence of the mind outside the body, investigating the psychological framing and impact
  • Supervisors: Dr Matthew Smith, Dr Ciaran O’Keefe, Piers Worth
  • Title: The Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs in Non-Competitive Gym and Fitness Athletes - A Public Health Concern? Prevalence, Motivations for Use, Health Concerns and Prevention
  • Supervisors: Dr Ben Clayton, Dr Fiona McCormack
  • Title: Developing and Assessing the Impact of a Strengths-Based Leadership Programme on Wellbeing and Performance for the NHS
  • Supervisors: Dr Matthew Smith, Dr Ceri Sims
  • Title: Worried Well: Emotional Challenges Associated With Covid-19 Amongst Elderly Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) People With Comorbidities in the United Kingdom (UK)
  • Supervisors: Dr Anne Chappell, Dr George Clerk